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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
MH370 disappearance still a mystery two years on-Dan Martin-AFP-March 8, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Investigators probing what happened to flight MH370 said Tuesday the cause of the plane's disappearance remained a mystery as the second anniversary passed with devastated next-of-kin still grasping for answers.The Malaysia-led international team of aviation experts set up to investigate issued an annual progress report but the brief statement had no new insights on what caused the Malaysia Airlines jet to vanish."To date, the MH370 wreckage has still not been found despite the continuing search in the south Indian Ocean," it said.It was the second straight year that the team of investigators, which includes representatives from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and its counterparts from several other countries, had nothing to offer.Malaysia and Australia, however, said they remained optimistic that the painstaking search for an Indian Ocean crash site will find something that could lead to the recovery of flight data recorders and eventually reveal what caused MH370's disappearance."The current search operation is expected to be completed later this year, and we remain hopeful that MH370 will be found," Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a statement.The jet vanished on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew onboard, mostly Chinese and Malaysians.Authorities believe the Boeing 777 detoured to the remote southern Indian Ocean and then plunged into the treacherous waters.A wing fragment confirmed to be from MH370 was found on an island thousands of kilometres (miles) from the search area last year, the first proof that the plane indeed went down.The three nations have already indicated they will end the biggest and most expensive search effort in history if its high-tech scanning of a designated swathe of seafloor -- expected to be finished in a few months -- comes up empty.- 'Suffering day and night' -Australian Transport Minister Darren Chester echoed Najib's hope that the search will eventually "give answers to the world, in particular the families of missing loved ones".But the agony continues for the hundreds of next-of-kin whose lives have been shattered.Jiao Wenxi of China, who lost five family members including his older brother and the two-year-old daughter of his niece, said the lack of answers has left him feeling "helpless.""If you don’t want to tell us the truth, at least let us catch a glimpse of our loved ones. Or if they’ve disappeared, if they’re dead, at least let me see them, or some of their things," said Jiao, 55."But now, you have nothing."He is bracing for a long and painful vigil."Maybe they can find it in 10 or 20 years -- I’ll wait."Jiao spoke at a Buddhist temple in Beijing where more than 20 Chinese relatives gathered to pray and to read out a statement appealing for an open-ended search, saying their suffering made each day feel "like a year."There were 153 Chinese nationals onboard.Theories to explain the disappearance include a possible mechanical or structural failure, a hijacking or terror plot, or rogue pilot action.Many families accuse the airline and Malaysian government of abetting the disappearance through a bungled response and covering up information. Many refuse to believe their loved ones are dead.The second anniversary is also the deadline for suing Malaysia Airlines, and scores of lawsuits seeking damages have been filed in recent days in the United States, Malaysia, China, Australia and elsewhere, while others have accepted undisclosed settlements.Some suits also target Malaysia's government and Boeing.But Jiao, noting that many Chinese next-of-kin lost their only heirs as a consequence of China's "one-child policy", said monetary settlements mean nothing."What use is it to give that kind of person any sum of money?" he said.In a statement to AFP, Malaysia Airlines on Tuesday denied being secretive with families, and promised to work "in good faith for payment of fair and equitable compensation."
Mysterious 'Area 6' Landing Strip in Nevada Desert Baffles Experts-LiveScience.com]-Tia Ghose-March 8, 2016-YAHOONEWS
A mysterious, mile-long landing strip in the remote Nevada desert could be the home base for testing sensors on a top-secret fleet of drones, security experts speculate.The asphalt landing strip is in Area 6 of the Yucca Flat test site, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northeast of the infamous Area 51 that has long been the subject of conspiracy theories. In Area 6, a handful of hangars with clamshell doors are clustered at one end of the airstrip, images from Google Earth reveal.The area, which does not have a name, is fenced off and can be seen from the road by those touring the pockmarked Nevada National Security Site of Yucca Flat, where the military conducted hundreds of nuclear tests over several decades. [14 Strangest Sights on Google Earth]-While little is known about Area 6, the Yucca Airstrip is used by both the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, Darwin Morgan, a spokesperson for the National Nuclear Security Administration, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal."They come here to test their own sensors," he recently said after evading questions from the newspaper about Area 6 for months.Drone base?-Though officials with the government have been extremely reticent to reveal any details about the site, a few details have leaked out.A 7,500-page tome on nuclear safety at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project includes a brief paragraph describing Area 6 as an "aerial operations facility."“The purpose of this facility is to construct, operate, and test a variety of unmanned aerial vehicles. Tests include, but are not limited to, airframe modifications, sensor operation, and onboard computer development. A small, manned chase plane is used to track the unmanned aerial vehicles,” according to a 2008 report in the Yucca Mountain repository license application filed by government contractor Bechtel SAIC, which built the airstrip for $9.6 million.The airspace above the strip is controlled, which reduces the risk of planes or satellites in space getting a detailed look at the surroundings. It also prevents the public from unintentionally stumbling upon the site, Morgan told the Review-Journal.Based on its size, the hangars could house up to 15 MQ-9 Reaper planes, the type of drones used to perform reconnaissance, Tim Brown, an imagery analyst at the defense information website GlobalSecurity.org, told the Review Journal. The runway is too small for fighter jets or bombers, he added.One possibility is that the remotely piloted planes do practice runs for reconnaissance work. Yucca Flat's high desert terrain echoes that found in the most remote regions of Libya, where Al Qaeda or ISIS operatives could be hiding out, he said.If that's the case, the government may be testing out sensor arrays — essentially fields of hundreds of smartphone-type cameras that are mounted on planes such as the MQ-9 Reaper to take time-lapse photography. The idea is that anything out there that's moving could, in fact, be moved by a potential terrorist or bad actor, Brown said.Follow Tia Ghose on Twitterand Google+. Follow Live Science @livescience, Facebook & Google+.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Dutch inquiry to reveal MH17 missile launch location-By EUOBSERVER-MAR 8,16
Today, 09:12-A Dutch-led team of investigators say they will soon be able to determine the exact launch site of a missile that shot down a Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people. The Dutch are holding a referendum on a Ukraine trade deal on 6 April.
EU commission: Turkey deal complies with international law-By EUOBSERVER-MAR 8,16
Today, 12:41-The EU-Turkey deal reached on Monday night is "obviously in full complience with international law", a European Commission spokesman told journalist after the UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR expressed concerns about the "blanket return" of asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey. It said there must be safeguards for refugee protection.
UN 'deeply concerned' by EU-Turkey plan By Nikolaj Nielsen-MAR 8,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 18:39-Plans by the EU and Turkey to expel anyone, including Syrians, who used smugglers to reach Greece is stoking widespread criticism."I am deeply concerned about any arrangement that would involve the blanket return of anyone," the UN High commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi told MEPs in Strasbourg on Tuesday (8 March) .He said refugee safeguards under international law must be clearly spelled out, posing larger questions over an in-principle deal between the EU and Turkey agreed at a summit in Brussels on Monday.The proposal hinges on designating Turkey as a safe third country of origin.But watchdog groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch accuse Turkey of pushing back Syrians fleeing war back into Syria. It faces even worse accusations on the rights of Kurds.Turkey is also the only country in the world that applies a “geographical limitation” on asylum seekers. Despite having ratified the 1951 Geneva convention, Turkey will only grant full refugee protection status to Europeans.It means the vast majority of Syrians in Turkey are instead given a “temporary protection" status that bars them from long-term integration.Regardless of Turkey's patchwork application of the Geneva convention, the European Commission says the deal will comply with European and international law."You can be sure about that," commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein told reporters on Tuesday.Turkey already hosts some 2.7 million Syrian refugees. The war in Syria will enter its sixth year next week amid a shaky ceasefire but without any durable solution in sight.Renewed fighting in Iraq displaced 3.3 million last year. The country, along with Pakistan, hosts over 2 million Afghan refugees. Afghanistan is also dealing with its own internally displaced people, with 31 out of its 34 provinces locked in conflict.After Syrians, Iraqi and Afghans top the inflow figures into Europe.But both Iraqi and Afghans have been sidelined in the plan to resettle one refugee from Turkey for each one rejected applicant sent back from Europe.Europe's attempt to outsource the problem to Turkey is, in part, seen as a last-ditch solution given the lack of coordination and broad disagreements that has divided EU states for over a year.Grandi also refuted earlier claims by commission vice-president Frans Timmermans that 60 percent of the arrivals were economic migrants."This has been and essentially remains a refugee movement," he said.Around 138,000 people have arrived in southern Europe to seek asylum since the start of the year. The vast majority, over 88 percent, come from the top 10 refugee producing countries.Two-thirds are women and children - a 41 percent increase compared to last year, detailed Grandi on Tuesday, which was by coincidence international women's day.Exposed to violence and sexual abuse by smugglers and others, many are left to fend for themselves as they are forced to sleep in rough in parks, along roadways, and at bus stops and train stations.Around 35,000 people are now stuck in Greece following moves by Austria to clamp down on borders along the Western Balkan route.At the camp at Idomeni, on Greece’s border with Macedonia, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding. Some 14,000 are trapped and living in mud and squalor.Doctors Without Borders is treating thousands, including infants and pregnant women, for related illnesses.The lack of legal routes to Europe for the vast majority of people fleeing war in Syria and elsewhere, has in part, forced large numbers to seek help from smugglers. Some 82 suspected smugglers have been arrested near the Greek islands since the start of the year. Turkey says it arrested 300 more.The risks of exploitation are great. An estimated 10,000 refugee children are missing, with authorities fearing criminal gangs may be exploiting a large number for sex work and slave labour.
UN: 'Substantive' Syria peace talks to begin within days-[Associated Press]-JAMEY KEATEN-March 8, 2016-YAHOONEWS
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Syria will begin holding "substantive" peace talks with both Syrian government officials and opposition representatives no later than next Monday even as preparations toward the discussions get underway this week in Geneva, a spokeswoman for the envoy said Tuesday.The resumption of Syria peace talks has been expected ever since a U.S.-Russia-engineered cease-fire, which has sharply reduced bloodshed in the five-year war, took effect on Feb. 27. The truce — though limited and tentative — has mostly held, even as sporadic violence has continued.Staffan de Mistura was still planning for the talks to officially start Wednesday, but logistics and other issues have meant that delegations are likely to arrive in Geneva over several days, spokeswoman Jessy Chahine said. Meanwhile, the U.N. envoy is to convene Wednesday two separate panels aimed at monitoring the truce and pushing for humanitarian aid shipments.The three-track diplomatic push has become the most promising, if distant, hope in years to end a war that has cost over 250,000 lives, driven 11 million people from their homes, and given an opening to radical groups like the Islamic State and Syria's al-Qaida branch, the Nusra Front, to seize land. Those groups have been excluded from the diplomatic efforts.Opposition leaders have set conditions before they agree to rejoin the peace talks, and it is not yet certain whether they would indeed attend. However, some members of the High Negotiations Committee, a Saudi-backed group of opposition movements, were set to attend the "cessation of hostilities" task force meeting on Wednesday.De Mistura "will start substantive meetings with those who are in Geneva," by March 14 at the latest, Chahine told reporters. She said the peace talks would resume "in a staggered and proximity system," meaning that they are to take place in various phases and not face-to-face, at least initially.While the cease-fire has significantly reduced the violence, reports of sporadic fighting continued.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said fighting killed more civilians in the past two days than in the previous eight days combined. It said 80 civilians died in fighting in cease-fire areas since the truce took effect 10 days ago — more than half of them in the past two days.Separately, the official Syrian news agency SANA said government forces repelled an assault on a strategic position south of the contested city of Aleppo. The Observatory said Nusra Front fighters led the assault on Al-Eis hill on Monday night, but did not capture it.A mayor of a Turkish city near the Syrian border said at least three rockets fired from Syria landed on the Turkish side of the border Tuesday, killing one person and wounding another. Kilis' Mayor Hasan Kara said one rocket hit a populated neighborhood, causing casualties and panic, and two other rockets exploded on an empty patch of land.It was not immediately clear who fired the rockets or whether Turkey's military — which has been retaliating to any rockets or shells fired from Syria into Turkey — had fired back in response.The first and previous round of talks convened by de Mistura collapsed within days in early February over a Russian-backed government offensive near the Aleppo, Syria's largest city. Russia has supported Assad with a military campaign involving blistering air power.The cease-fire has been shepherded by Russia and the United States through the International Syria Support Group, a group of world and regional powers and organizations that includes several Western powers as well as Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia.A French diplomat said Tuesday that the Syrian opposition was still debating involvement in new talks, and will give its answer in the coming days. He said the conditions are only partially met to resume negotiations, saying there is a lot of progress yet to be made.The diplomat, who was not authorized to be publicly named, warned against holding talks too hastily, or holding them if the opposition is not ready to join, saying that could be counter-productive. He said talks should only resume if they are credible, and said participants should understand the opposition's concerns about holding talks while they're being bombed.The official said Russian bombing had decreased since the cease-fire began, and went down sharply over the last two days, but that Assad's forces were still bombing this week.___Associated Press writers Angela Charlton in Paris and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.
EU to sponsor gay rights boat, upsetting Hungary By Andrew Rettman-MAR 8,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 18:46-The European Commission is, for the first time ever, to take part in a gay pride event by sponsoring an EU boat in a flotilla in Amsterdam in summer.It is part of a new PR and legislative project warmly welcomed by most EU states on Monday (7 March).But Hungary doesn’t like the initiative and did not sign the statement published by the 27 other countries.The commission itself appears to be lukewarm about it.The EU boat will be one of 80 at the event, which takes place at the end of July. Other participants are to include a boat on the theme of gay athletes sponsored by German sportswear firm Adidas, a Moroccan boat, and a Ukrainian boat carrying the Ukrainian pop star Kamaliya.Danny de Vries, the Amsterdam Gay Pride spokesman, told EUobserver the EU’s application was selected in an open competition.He said the winning ideas best conveyed the message that “people should be proud of who they are and free to love whom they want to love.”He said Amsterdam Pride this year has the larger status of a “Europride” event and that it was a “good coincidence” that it comes shortly after the Dutch EU presidency, which ends on 1 July.De Vries said the commission told the organisers it is “the first time” but also “the last time” that it will take part in such an event.He indicated the organisers chose the EU entry despite being short on information on what the boat will look like. “I have no information on whether the commissioner will be on it or not,” he said, referring to Vera Jourova, a Czech politician who is the EU’s top official on justice and gender equality issues.The boat is part of a commission action plan on gay rights adopted last year.Other actions include reviving by 2019 an old legal proposal on equal treatment for sexual and other minorities on access to goods and services and helping EU capitals to combat online hate speech.But the Amsterdam boat project appears to have a low profile in Jourova’s agenda.When contacted by EUobserver, the commission’s office in The Hague had no information about it. When asked by this website what it would look like or why the commission would not take part in other pride events in the EU, Joureva’s spokesman also had no information.-Hungarian sovereignty-Meanwhile, Hungary dislikes the boat and action plan more broadly speaking.The Dutch EU presidency had hoped to formally endorse Joureva’s plan at a meeting of social affairs ministers in Brussels on Monday.But Hungary’s right-wing government vetoed the move because, it said, EU promotion of gay rights threatened its sovereignty.“Hungary could not support the document on the rights of LGBTI persons - exclusively prepared by the commission - at the Council meeting in its present form due to the fact that serious concerns related to the sovereignty of the member states were raised,” Dora Bokay, a spokeswoman for Hungary’s EU mission told EUobserver.Two Dutch ministers said they were “disappointed” with Budapest.Ilga-Europe, a Brussels-based gay rights NGO, also said it “would have much preferred to have seen full unanimity.”But it welcomed the group-of-27 statement. It said that it “breathes life” into Joureva’s plan and that it shows most EU capitals want “practical progress sooner rather than later.”Hungary isn’t the only EU member which has held back the commission on gay rights in the past, however.-German U-turn?-Germany has for a long time said No to the equal treatment directive on goods and services which the commission first proposed 16 years ago.It is one of the most gay-friendly EU jurisdictions.But it said in the past the law would impose too high a cost on small businesses, such as bars and cafes, which would be forced, among oter provisions, to install wheelchair access.Asked by EUobserver if its decision to undersign Monday’s informal communique means a U-turn on the directive, the German mission to the EU declined to comment.
Investigators probing what happened to flight MH370 said Tuesday the cause of the plane's disappearance remained a mystery as the second anniversary passed with devastated next-of-kin still grasping for answers.The Malaysia-led international team of aviation experts set up to investigate issued an annual progress report but the brief statement had no new insights on what caused the Malaysia Airlines jet to vanish."To date, the MH370 wreckage has still not been found despite the continuing search in the south Indian Ocean," it said.It was the second straight year that the team of investigators, which includes representatives from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and its counterparts from several other countries, had nothing to offer.Malaysia and Australia, however, said they remained optimistic that the painstaking search for an Indian Ocean crash site will find something that could lead to the recovery of flight data recorders and eventually reveal what caused MH370's disappearance."The current search operation is expected to be completed later this year, and we remain hopeful that MH370 will be found," Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a statement.The jet vanished on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew onboard, mostly Chinese and Malaysians.Authorities believe the Boeing 777 detoured to the remote southern Indian Ocean and then plunged into the treacherous waters.A wing fragment confirmed to be from MH370 was found on an island thousands of kilometres (miles) from the search area last year, the first proof that the plane indeed went down.The three nations have already indicated they will end the biggest and most expensive search effort in history if its high-tech scanning of a designated swathe of seafloor -- expected to be finished in a few months -- comes up empty.- 'Suffering day and night' -Australian Transport Minister Darren Chester echoed Najib's hope that the search will eventually "give answers to the world, in particular the families of missing loved ones".But the agony continues for the hundreds of next-of-kin whose lives have been shattered.Jiao Wenxi of China, who lost five family members including his older brother and the two-year-old daughter of his niece, said the lack of answers has left him feeling "helpless.""If you don’t want to tell us the truth, at least let us catch a glimpse of our loved ones. Or if they’ve disappeared, if they’re dead, at least let me see them, or some of their things," said Jiao, 55."But now, you have nothing."He is bracing for a long and painful vigil."Maybe they can find it in 10 or 20 years -- I’ll wait."Jiao spoke at a Buddhist temple in Beijing where more than 20 Chinese relatives gathered to pray and to read out a statement appealing for an open-ended search, saying their suffering made each day feel "like a year."There were 153 Chinese nationals onboard.Theories to explain the disappearance include a possible mechanical or structural failure, a hijacking or terror plot, or rogue pilot action.Many families accuse the airline and Malaysian government of abetting the disappearance through a bungled response and covering up information. Many refuse to believe their loved ones are dead.The second anniversary is also the deadline for suing Malaysia Airlines, and scores of lawsuits seeking damages have been filed in recent days in the United States, Malaysia, China, Australia and elsewhere, while others have accepted undisclosed settlements.Some suits also target Malaysia's government and Boeing.But Jiao, noting that many Chinese next-of-kin lost their only heirs as a consequence of China's "one-child policy", said monetary settlements mean nothing."What use is it to give that kind of person any sum of money?" he said.In a statement to AFP, Malaysia Airlines on Tuesday denied being secretive with families, and promised to work "in good faith for payment of fair and equitable compensation."
Mysterious 'Area 6' Landing Strip in Nevada Desert Baffles Experts-LiveScience.com]-Tia Ghose-March 8, 2016-YAHOONEWS
A mysterious, mile-long landing strip in the remote Nevada desert could be the home base for testing sensors on a top-secret fleet of drones, security experts speculate.The asphalt landing strip is in Area 6 of the Yucca Flat test site, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northeast of the infamous Area 51 that has long been the subject of conspiracy theories. In Area 6, a handful of hangars with clamshell doors are clustered at one end of the airstrip, images from Google Earth reveal.The area, which does not have a name, is fenced off and can be seen from the road by those touring the pockmarked Nevada National Security Site of Yucca Flat, where the military conducted hundreds of nuclear tests over several decades. [14 Strangest Sights on Google Earth]-While little is known about Area 6, the Yucca Airstrip is used by both the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, Darwin Morgan, a spokesperson for the National Nuclear Security Administration, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal."They come here to test their own sensors," he recently said after evading questions from the newspaper about Area 6 for months.Drone base?-Though officials with the government have been extremely reticent to reveal any details about the site, a few details have leaked out.A 7,500-page tome on nuclear safety at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project includes a brief paragraph describing Area 6 as an "aerial operations facility."“The purpose of this facility is to construct, operate, and test a variety of unmanned aerial vehicles. Tests include, but are not limited to, airframe modifications, sensor operation, and onboard computer development. A small, manned chase plane is used to track the unmanned aerial vehicles,” according to a 2008 report in the Yucca Mountain repository license application filed by government contractor Bechtel SAIC, which built the airstrip for $9.6 million.The airspace above the strip is controlled, which reduces the risk of planes or satellites in space getting a detailed look at the surroundings. It also prevents the public from unintentionally stumbling upon the site, Morgan told the Review-Journal.Based on its size, the hangars could house up to 15 MQ-9 Reaper planes, the type of drones used to perform reconnaissance, Tim Brown, an imagery analyst at the defense information website GlobalSecurity.org, told the Review Journal. The runway is too small for fighter jets or bombers, he added.One possibility is that the remotely piloted planes do practice runs for reconnaissance work. Yucca Flat's high desert terrain echoes that found in the most remote regions of Libya, where Al Qaeda or ISIS operatives could be hiding out, he said.If that's the case, the government may be testing out sensor arrays — essentially fields of hundreds of smartphone-type cameras that are mounted on planes such as the MQ-9 Reaper to take time-lapse photography. The idea is that anything out there that's moving could, in fact, be moved by a potential terrorist or bad actor, Brown said.Follow Tia Ghose on Twitterand Google+. Follow Live Science @livescience, Facebook & Google+.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Dutch inquiry to reveal MH17 missile launch location-By EUOBSERVER-MAR 8,16
Today, 09:12-A Dutch-led team of investigators say they will soon be able to determine the exact launch site of a missile that shot down a Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people. The Dutch are holding a referendum on a Ukraine trade deal on 6 April.
EU commission: Turkey deal complies with international law-By EUOBSERVER-MAR 8,16
Today, 12:41-The EU-Turkey deal reached on Monday night is "obviously in full complience with international law", a European Commission spokesman told journalist after the UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR expressed concerns about the "blanket return" of asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey. It said there must be safeguards for refugee protection.
UN 'deeply concerned' by EU-Turkey plan By Nikolaj Nielsen-MAR 8,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 18:39-Plans by the EU and Turkey to expel anyone, including Syrians, who used smugglers to reach Greece is stoking widespread criticism."I am deeply concerned about any arrangement that would involve the blanket return of anyone," the UN High commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi told MEPs in Strasbourg on Tuesday (8 March) .He said refugee safeguards under international law must be clearly spelled out, posing larger questions over an in-principle deal between the EU and Turkey agreed at a summit in Brussels on Monday.The proposal hinges on designating Turkey as a safe third country of origin.But watchdog groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch accuse Turkey of pushing back Syrians fleeing war back into Syria. It faces even worse accusations on the rights of Kurds.Turkey is also the only country in the world that applies a “geographical limitation” on asylum seekers. Despite having ratified the 1951 Geneva convention, Turkey will only grant full refugee protection status to Europeans.It means the vast majority of Syrians in Turkey are instead given a “temporary protection" status that bars them from long-term integration.Regardless of Turkey's patchwork application of the Geneva convention, the European Commission says the deal will comply with European and international law."You can be sure about that," commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein told reporters on Tuesday.Turkey already hosts some 2.7 million Syrian refugees. The war in Syria will enter its sixth year next week amid a shaky ceasefire but without any durable solution in sight.Renewed fighting in Iraq displaced 3.3 million last year. The country, along with Pakistan, hosts over 2 million Afghan refugees. Afghanistan is also dealing with its own internally displaced people, with 31 out of its 34 provinces locked in conflict.After Syrians, Iraqi and Afghans top the inflow figures into Europe.But both Iraqi and Afghans have been sidelined in the plan to resettle one refugee from Turkey for each one rejected applicant sent back from Europe.Europe's attempt to outsource the problem to Turkey is, in part, seen as a last-ditch solution given the lack of coordination and broad disagreements that has divided EU states for over a year.Grandi also refuted earlier claims by commission vice-president Frans Timmermans that 60 percent of the arrivals were economic migrants."This has been and essentially remains a refugee movement," he said.Around 138,000 people have arrived in southern Europe to seek asylum since the start of the year. The vast majority, over 88 percent, come from the top 10 refugee producing countries.Two-thirds are women and children - a 41 percent increase compared to last year, detailed Grandi on Tuesday, which was by coincidence international women's day.Exposed to violence and sexual abuse by smugglers and others, many are left to fend for themselves as they are forced to sleep in rough in parks, along roadways, and at bus stops and train stations.Around 35,000 people are now stuck in Greece following moves by Austria to clamp down on borders along the Western Balkan route.At the camp at Idomeni, on Greece’s border with Macedonia, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding. Some 14,000 are trapped and living in mud and squalor.Doctors Without Borders is treating thousands, including infants and pregnant women, for related illnesses.The lack of legal routes to Europe for the vast majority of people fleeing war in Syria and elsewhere, has in part, forced large numbers to seek help from smugglers. Some 82 suspected smugglers have been arrested near the Greek islands since the start of the year. Turkey says it arrested 300 more.The risks of exploitation are great. An estimated 10,000 refugee children are missing, with authorities fearing criminal gangs may be exploiting a large number for sex work and slave labour.
UN: 'Substantive' Syria peace talks to begin within days-[Associated Press]-JAMEY KEATEN-March 8, 2016-YAHOONEWS
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Syria will begin holding "substantive" peace talks with both Syrian government officials and opposition representatives no later than next Monday even as preparations toward the discussions get underway this week in Geneva, a spokeswoman for the envoy said Tuesday.The resumption of Syria peace talks has been expected ever since a U.S.-Russia-engineered cease-fire, which has sharply reduced bloodshed in the five-year war, took effect on Feb. 27. The truce — though limited and tentative — has mostly held, even as sporadic violence has continued.Staffan de Mistura was still planning for the talks to officially start Wednesday, but logistics and other issues have meant that delegations are likely to arrive in Geneva over several days, spokeswoman Jessy Chahine said. Meanwhile, the U.N. envoy is to convene Wednesday two separate panels aimed at monitoring the truce and pushing for humanitarian aid shipments.The three-track diplomatic push has become the most promising, if distant, hope in years to end a war that has cost over 250,000 lives, driven 11 million people from their homes, and given an opening to radical groups like the Islamic State and Syria's al-Qaida branch, the Nusra Front, to seize land. Those groups have been excluded from the diplomatic efforts.Opposition leaders have set conditions before they agree to rejoin the peace talks, and it is not yet certain whether they would indeed attend. However, some members of the High Negotiations Committee, a Saudi-backed group of opposition movements, were set to attend the "cessation of hostilities" task force meeting on Wednesday.De Mistura "will start substantive meetings with those who are in Geneva," by March 14 at the latest, Chahine told reporters. She said the peace talks would resume "in a staggered and proximity system," meaning that they are to take place in various phases and not face-to-face, at least initially.While the cease-fire has significantly reduced the violence, reports of sporadic fighting continued.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said fighting killed more civilians in the past two days than in the previous eight days combined. It said 80 civilians died in fighting in cease-fire areas since the truce took effect 10 days ago — more than half of them in the past two days.Separately, the official Syrian news agency SANA said government forces repelled an assault on a strategic position south of the contested city of Aleppo. The Observatory said Nusra Front fighters led the assault on Al-Eis hill on Monday night, but did not capture it.A mayor of a Turkish city near the Syrian border said at least three rockets fired from Syria landed on the Turkish side of the border Tuesday, killing one person and wounding another. Kilis' Mayor Hasan Kara said one rocket hit a populated neighborhood, causing casualties and panic, and two other rockets exploded on an empty patch of land.It was not immediately clear who fired the rockets or whether Turkey's military — which has been retaliating to any rockets or shells fired from Syria into Turkey — had fired back in response.The first and previous round of talks convened by de Mistura collapsed within days in early February over a Russian-backed government offensive near the Aleppo, Syria's largest city. Russia has supported Assad with a military campaign involving blistering air power.The cease-fire has been shepherded by Russia and the United States through the International Syria Support Group, a group of world and regional powers and organizations that includes several Western powers as well as Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia.A French diplomat said Tuesday that the Syrian opposition was still debating involvement in new talks, and will give its answer in the coming days. He said the conditions are only partially met to resume negotiations, saying there is a lot of progress yet to be made.The diplomat, who was not authorized to be publicly named, warned against holding talks too hastily, or holding them if the opposition is not ready to join, saying that could be counter-productive. He said talks should only resume if they are credible, and said participants should understand the opposition's concerns about holding talks while they're being bombed.The official said Russian bombing had decreased since the cease-fire began, and went down sharply over the last two days, but that Assad's forces were still bombing this week.___Associated Press writers Angela Charlton in Paris and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.
EU to sponsor gay rights boat, upsetting Hungary By Andrew Rettman-MAR 8,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 18:46-The European Commission is, for the first time ever, to take part in a gay pride event by sponsoring an EU boat in a flotilla in Amsterdam in summer.It is part of a new PR and legislative project warmly welcomed by most EU states on Monday (7 March).But Hungary doesn’t like the initiative and did not sign the statement published by the 27 other countries.The commission itself appears to be lukewarm about it.The EU boat will be one of 80 at the event, which takes place at the end of July. Other participants are to include a boat on the theme of gay athletes sponsored by German sportswear firm Adidas, a Moroccan boat, and a Ukrainian boat carrying the Ukrainian pop star Kamaliya.Danny de Vries, the Amsterdam Gay Pride spokesman, told EUobserver the EU’s application was selected in an open competition.He said the winning ideas best conveyed the message that “people should be proud of who they are and free to love whom they want to love.”He said Amsterdam Pride this year has the larger status of a “Europride” event and that it was a “good coincidence” that it comes shortly after the Dutch EU presidency, which ends on 1 July.De Vries said the commission told the organisers it is “the first time” but also “the last time” that it will take part in such an event.He indicated the organisers chose the EU entry despite being short on information on what the boat will look like. “I have no information on whether the commissioner will be on it or not,” he said, referring to Vera Jourova, a Czech politician who is the EU’s top official on justice and gender equality issues.The boat is part of a commission action plan on gay rights adopted last year.Other actions include reviving by 2019 an old legal proposal on equal treatment for sexual and other minorities on access to goods and services and helping EU capitals to combat online hate speech.But the Amsterdam boat project appears to have a low profile in Jourova’s agenda.When contacted by EUobserver, the commission’s office in The Hague had no information about it. When asked by this website what it would look like or why the commission would not take part in other pride events in the EU, Joureva’s spokesman also had no information.-Hungarian sovereignty-Meanwhile, Hungary dislikes the boat and action plan more broadly speaking.The Dutch EU presidency had hoped to formally endorse Joureva’s plan at a meeting of social affairs ministers in Brussels on Monday.But Hungary’s right-wing government vetoed the move because, it said, EU promotion of gay rights threatened its sovereignty.“Hungary could not support the document on the rights of LGBTI persons - exclusively prepared by the commission - at the Council meeting in its present form due to the fact that serious concerns related to the sovereignty of the member states were raised,” Dora Bokay, a spokeswoman for Hungary’s EU mission told EUobserver.Two Dutch ministers said they were “disappointed” with Budapest.Ilga-Europe, a Brussels-based gay rights NGO, also said it “would have much preferred to have seen full unanimity.”But it welcomed the group-of-27 statement. It said that it “breathes life” into Joureva’s plan and that it shows most EU capitals want “practical progress sooner rather than later.”Hungary isn’t the only EU member which has held back the commission on gay rights in the past, however.-German U-turn?-Germany has for a long time said No to the equal treatment directive on goods and services which the commission first proposed 16 years ago.It is one of the most gay-friendly EU jurisdictions.But it said in the past the law would impose too high a cost on small businesses, such as bars and cafes, which would be forced, among oter provisions, to install wheelchair access.Asked by EUobserver if its decision to undersign Monday’s informal communique means a U-turn on the directive, the German mission to the EU declined to comment.
